Tehran, Iran, March 21
By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the enemy seeks to attribute the existing economic shortcomings to Islam and blame the Islamic foundations of the country for the economic woe.
Enemies seek to undermine the trust of the Iranian nation in the Islamic establishment through mounting economic pressure, he said in a public address, urging that economic prosperity is what is needed to lay anti-Islamic Republic efforst flat, Trend correspondent reported March 21.
"The enemies of the Islamic Republic are looking for economic strategies and in better words, seek to deal economic blows to the Iranian nation," the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei described the new Persian calendar year (which started March 21) as “important” for the country which is in need of more economic mobility.
“The enemy’s goal is to dismay and disillusion the Iranian nation with the Islamic establishment through economic pressure and drive a wedge between the people and the Islamic establishment,” the Leader stated.
“The enemy in its widespread propaganda is making efforts to attribute the country’s livelihood and economic shortcomings to the Islamic establishment and the Islamic Republic of Iran and this is the enemy’s plot,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
“The enemies want to pretend that the Islamic establishment has not been and will never be able to solve the economic and major woes of the Iranian nation…This claim stems from their grudge and hatred against the Islamic establishment and this claim is contrary to the truth,” the Leader said.
The Islamic establishment and the Islamic Republic have offered "prominent and remarkable" services to Iran and the Iranians, the Leader said.
Figures indicating Iran’s progress in the military and economy are very remarkable, Ayatollah Khamenei said, adding that the number of university students, as one example, has increased 25 times the pre-revolution figures.
In his televised message to the nation on Monday on the occasion of the New Year, Ayatollah Khamenei designated the year as the year for production and employment.